git-annex/doc/devblog/day_175__encoding_day.mdwn
Joey Hess e213ef310f git-annex (5.20140717) unstable; urgency=high
* Fix minor FD leak in journal code. Closes: #754608
  * direct: Fix handling of case where a work tree subdirectory cannot
    be written to due to permissions.
  * migrate: Avoid re-checksumming when migrating from hashE to hash backend.
  * uninit: Avoid failing final removal in some direct mode repositories
    due to file modes.
  * S3: Deal with AWS ACL configurations that do not allow creating or
    checking the location of a bucket, but only reading and writing content to
    it.
  * resolvemerge: New plumbing command that runs the automatic merge conflict
    resolver.
  * Deal with change in git 2.0 that made indirect mode merge conflict
    resolution leave behind old files.
  * sync: Fix git sync with local git remotes even when they don't have an
    annex.uuid set. (The assistant already did so.)
  * Set gcrypt-publish-participants when setting up a gcrypt repository,
    to avoid unncessary passphrase prompts.
    This is a security/usability tradeoff. To avoid exposing the gpg key
    ids who can decrypt the repository, users can unset
    gcrypt-publish-participants.
  * Install nautilus hooks even when ~/.local/share/nautilus/ does not yet
    exist, since it is not automatically created for Gnome 3 users.
  * Windows: Move .vbs files out of git\bin, to avoid that being in the
    PATH, which caused some weird breakage. (Thanks, divB)
  * Windows: Fix locking issue that prevented the webapp starting
    (since 5.20140707).

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These themed days are inaverdent, but it happened again: Nearly everything
done today had to do with encoding issues.
The big news is that it turned out everything written to files in the
git-annex branch had unicode characters truncated to 8 bits. Now fixed so
you should always get out the same thing you put in, no matter what
encoding you use (but please use utf8). This affected things like storing
repository descriptions, but worse, it affected metadata. (Also preferred
content expressions, I suppose.)
With that fixed, there are still 7 source files left that use Char8 libraries.
There used to be more; nearly every use of those is a bug. I looked over
the remaining uses of it, and there might be a problem with Creds using it.
I should probably make a push to stamp out all remaining uses of Char8.
Other encoding bugs were less reproducible.
And just now, Sören made some progress on
[[bugs/Bootstrap3_icons_missing_on_Android]] ... and my current theory
is this is actually caused by an encoding issue too.